RUSSIA: Winner Takes All

Nikita Khrushchev, pudgy, hard-drinking son
of Ukrainian peasantry, became dictator of Russia last week, grinning
and triumphant after carrying out the most sweeping purge of top-level
Kremlin Communists in almost 20 years.

At one stroke Party Secretary Khrushchev sent into certain oblivion the
three next-most-powerful policymaking Communists in the Soviet Union.
Out went his closest rival for leadership, suety, triple-chinned Georgy
Malenkov, 55, whom the British, having seen them all, considered the
ablest of the Russian leaders. Down went Khrushchev's severest and most
obstinate ideological critic, flint-eyed Vyacheslav ("The Hammer")
Molotov,...